Solo cup drainage

[bower]

If you can't use scissors I'm with Patti, use a skewer or an awl to poke holes. Burning plastic is not nice, very nasty. I do mine while watching tv at night.

[oakley]

Burning plastic is toxic. The original poster cannot even use a pair of scissors without pain because of extreme joint pain from arthritis. It is a very disruptive disease that is very common.

Stop suggesting drill bits without reading the op post and subsequent posts. Might be better to be helpful than jocular. I can also drill into 8 solo cups with a drill no biggie.

The op cannot use a drill or a scissor or a nail and needs suggestions...BTW

I actually thought a scissor snip would be so easy giving a good sharp scissor and no real effort...Just want to help and have no answer at this time.

I hold them over a candle, one at a time.

[AlittleSalt]

As Elight wrote above, a drill works well - it's what I use.

In the future, if I grow more than I did this year, I might turn the solo cups all on their side a use a few rounds of 20 gauge birdshot.

[Bulldog]

I took a box cutter, half blade open and cut a triangle or square in the bottom, sit the cup on a low table with minimal fine motor work, just press it in one side at a time. Makes about a half inch square in the bottom. A little slow and boring, but workable.

[imp]

Originally Posted by luigiwu

imp, you must have a LONG drill bit! lol - I only can stack 5 togethor coz that's the height of my drill bit.

Nope, normal bit bought at Wallyworld, LOL!

It's easier on my hands to stack them like that and press down slightly with my left hand and drill with my right hand holding the drill. I do stackthem on the floor and press down - would that make a difference?

[Hunt-Grow-Cook]

Originally Posted by skywalker

i use a wood burning iron pokes nice round holes in the cups. dollar store sells solo cups here in Canada 18 for $1.25

This. Fumes aside, I do it on my back porch or an open garage. Drill works, but rough torn edges are inevitable and getting too excited and moving to quickly it's easy to skew your holes when drilling multiple cups. Which by the way I never got more than 4 or 5 in a stack and had it work effectively. At least with a standard bit. I also like holes on the side/edge of the cup, the wood burning pen is absolutely effortless. In and out.

[dmforcier]

Originally Posted by Uncle Doss

how much do Solo cups cost?

They're not cheap, unless you live near a fraternity. I looked at some at my Kroger since I use them for labels, and IIRC they were about $3.50 for a pack of 20.

[Hunt-Grow-Cook]

Originally Posted by dmforcier

They're not cheap, unless you live near a fraternity. I looked at some at my Kroger since I use them for labels, and IIRC they were about $3.50 for a pack of 20.

$3 and some change at my walmart for the square bottom 18oz in a pack of 60. And that's the Solo brand. Even cheaper for off brands/smaller size. Solo is the only one with sqaure bottom though.

[AlittleSalt]

dmforcier, I use 16 oz. HEB cups. They're cheap and last a few years. They cost about $4 for a hundred. 12 cups fit well in Dollar Tree baskets.

[imp]

Originally Posted by oakley

Burning plastic is toxic. The original poster cannot even use a pair of scissors without pain because of extreme joint pain from arthritis. It is a very disruptive disease that is very common.

Stop suggesting drill bits without reading the op post and subsequent posts. Might be better to be helpful than jocular. I can also drill into 8 solo cups with a drill no biggie.

The op cannot use a drill or a scissor or a nail and needs suggestions...BTW

I actually thought a scissor snip would be so easy giving a good sharp scissor and no real effort...Just want to help and have no answer at this time.

I am sorry if something is distressing you, but to jump on everyone like that is not nice, nor were you accurate.

The OP did not say anything about a drill.

Assuming that the suggestions were made without reading the opening post is probably very incorrect. I think everyone WAS trying to be helpful.

Yes, it's toxic to burn plastics, the suggestion was to do so outside I believe.

Making a semi closed fist with pressure might not be a possible for the OP because of the hand problems, but holding a light weight drill may be something they may be able to do.

[imp]

I get a 100 pack at WM for just under $6.00.

Yes, the drill can make some chaff and not the smoothest holes, but the holes work and they have good drainage. LOL, I haven't spent much time admiring the look of the drainage holes much, <grin>.

[timbucktwo]

Originally Posted by imp

Drill, smaller bit and I stack them about 9 deep, set them upside down and drill. I can drill a pack of a 100 in about 3 minutes or less. That is putting 4 to 5 holes in the bottoms.

No problem with them wicking up water or draining that way.

BTW, no one told me, and I ad never used a drill before, but keep the drill running as you poke the holes in and coming back out.

Pretty much the same way I do it, stack 5 at a time, drill center hole then 4 corner holes with 1/8" bit, drill slowly, wipe out inside and bottom of each cup to clean out plastic shavings afterwards, works like a charm, have done 300 that way & goes quick once you're into it.

[Gerardo]

Perhaps a Worth doppelganger that cares for you can manufacture a piece of wood (plywood, stick, odds and ends at construction sites) with sharp nails on one side, plus an ergonomic handle on the other that is amenable to your grip strength or designed in such a way that it uses the base of your hand rather than your fingers-grip, and then just push down on the cups.

A "hand sanding pad-block" of sorts with nails.

[kameronth]

I pot up in 20oz styrofoam cups. I think I pay around $1.50 for a 14 pack at Wallyworld. I just poke holes in the bottom with a screw driver and it barely takes any force.